Research areas

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's researchers engage in projects that seek to further understanding of gene
function in health and disease and to generate data and resources of lasting value to biomedical research.

Our research is broadly divided into six main areas of investigation: Human genetics, Mouse and zebrafish genetics,
Cellular genetics, Pathogen genetics, Malaria, and Bioinformatics. Working within these areas, our Faculty of
world-leading scientists can explore and develop their own unique hypotheses.